the Peripatetics walked in the Lyceum. From 
this fcrap of Grecian hiftory, I fuppofe, the 
Artifts in London, when they quarrelled 
with their brethren of the Royal Academy, 
dignified their room in the Strand, with the 
appellation of the Lyceum. 
Whether thefe Peripatetics ftudied in 
company or alone, may admit of doubt fuf- 
ficient to furnifh matter of difcuflion to a 
commentator on the Grecian hiftory: be 
the fact however as it might, I advife you 
fometimes to ftroll out without company. 
If you wifh to fix your ferious attention to 
any fubje6l of confequence; or, if you be 
particularly defirous of exerting, ftimulating 
and expanding your imagination, you will 
find more affiftance in the fields, from a 
genial atmofphere, a ferene Iky, a fmiling 
landfcape, an extended horizon, than from 
the books on your table. I do not mean that 
you fhould become a mifanthrope ; that you 
fhould always walk alone 5 far from it: 
chearful company is occafionally as necef- 
fary to a ftudious man as the air he breaths. 
But, as I obferve that parties of frefhmen, 
'in their walks, generally amufe themfelves 
with leaping over hedges and ditches, though 
fuch athletic fports may be very wholefome, 
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